Today's Sports

The weather was cold and damp Monday evening at Oliver Springs’ Arrowhead Park, but the visiting Oakdale Eagles adapted to the elements just fine as they handed the Bobcats their first District 4-A loss of the season, 9-1.

Monday and Tuesday, Guy Thompson’s ladies took two games from Oakdale by a combined score of 28-1. On Thursday, the Lady Tigers improved to 3-0 with a 15-0 win over Wartburg in a game that lasted only three innings.

The weather may have been bitterly cold, but the action on the softball diamond at Southwest Point Thursday evening was red-hot as the Kingston Lady Jackets rallied from a 3-0 deficit to take a big 5-4 win in extra innings over Meigs County.

When Midway junior Seth Hughes competed in the Tennessee swimming championships on Feb. 14 and 15, he was hoping to do well enough in the 100-meter backstroke to earn a spot in the Southeast Regionals. Hughes thought a time of 55 seconds could get it done, but considering he had never swam the event in under 56 seconds, he knew he had his work cut out.

A seesaw affair ended with the Rockwood Tigers suffering its first defeat of the season Friday evening at Fulton, 9-8.

The back-and-forth battle started early with both teams scoring two runs in the first inning, Rockwood holding a 4-3 lead after two innings, and then the Falcons taking a 5-4 lead into the fourth inning.

It may not have been the strongest outing by the Rockwood Lady Tigers, but they managed to overcome a bit of a sluggish start en route to a 16-4 win over the Wartburg Lady Bulldogs softball squad Friday evening at Wartburg.

In the top of the first inning, Chelsea Cheek stole home on a wild pitch and Kristin Isham had an RBI double to push the lead to 2-0 early on.

Wartburg left the bases juiced in the bottom of the first inning when they got to the bottom of the inning.

Bruce Robinette’s Kingston Yellow Jackets picked up their first win of the 2014 season Friday night as they traveled to Harriman and knocked off the Blue Devils, 8-0.

The Jackets didn’t pick up the victory by having any big innings or using extra base hits, but rather stringing together singles and being aggressive on the base paths. Of Kingston’s 10 hits on the day, nine were singles. The Jackets also stole nine bases.